Halloween: A time when children dress up to collect candy and college girls dress up to impress boys.
Most girls I know want to wear (and are going to wear) a sexy costume: a French maid, a sailor girl, a stewardess, etc. Other girls take child-friendly costumes, like girl scouts or an animal, and slut it up with shorter skirts, tighter tops and sexy leg wear and heels.
It’s fine to want to dress up sexy. Women are more confident when they look and feel sexy. We’re all attention whores at heart, and Halloween is one of the few nights when we can thrust ourselves into the spotlight and get away with it.
While getting ready for the Halloween dance last Friday, which turned out to be lame, I could hear my friends outside my door saying: ‘This isn’t slutty enough,’ ‘I don’t want to be too slutty,’ ‘Open shirt or shorter skirt?’ Decency, I feel, has always been an issue, especially when it comes to Halloween costumes. Progressively, costumes have been getting flashier, crazier, skankier and shorter, and almost every teenaged female has worn such a get-up.
As a person who believes in understated sexiness and modesty, I am puzzled as to the reason why girls want to dress like sluts. Is wearing a short skirt really that comfortable? Is it possible to breathe in the two-sizes-too-small spandex? How are you not frozen in a barely-there tube top? Sure, the guys may be all over you, but it’s only because of the way you’re dressed.
On a scale of one to 10, 10 being the trashiest, most female costumes sold in stores are a five. Even in places like Ricky’s NYC, a place for all your Halloween slut needs, all costumes are pretty wearable without being trashy. Hemlines are just short enough to cover your privates and outfits are just tight enough to not expose your panty line (if you’re even wearing underwear) or bra straps.
It is when girls accessorize with their costumes – hiking up their skirts, opening their blouses, adding fishnets and pumps, wearing intense make-up- that costumes become more and more slutty.
The previous experience of my friends’ getting ready fresh in my mind, I was quite surprised to see that the ladies of Fairfield were decently dressed at the Halloween dance. Although a few midriffs were exposed, the majority of the females there were able to keep their ‘lady lumps’ hidden. Dancing behavior aside, everyone looked clean and appropriate, even in short shorts and elongating knee-highs.
Maybe you’re reading this, wondering what the hell I mean by dressing appropriately and decently. I’m all about showing skin, just not all of it at once, so I’ve decided to compose a short list of rules that will clear things up:
- Bras and underwear please!
- Cover up! This doesn’t mean super long skirts and turtlenecks. Just make sure your ass isn’t exposed. If you have to buy hot pants, do so. Cleavage is ok, but you can’t be bursting out.
- A little midriff is ok. Full stomach exposure should only apply to outfits that call for it: belly-dancers, cheerleaders, Britney Spears-type schoolgirls etc.
- If your outfit is too tight to the point where you can’t breathe, get rid of it. You won’t be comfortable at all.
- To sex something up, add fishnets or knee high socks.
With that in mind, I hope you all have a skank-free Halloween.
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